Filipov, a reporter for the Boston Globe, was expelled from Iraq
for using his satellite phone to file a story from his room at the Al-Rashid
Hotel in the capital, Baghdad.

Iraqi regulations dictated that foreign journalists could only use their
satellite phones from the Press Center in Baghdad. On March 12, at the
invitation of Iraqi authorities, Filipov and other journalists had observed
a drone weapon that Iraq possessed, and the Globe asked Filipov
to file a story, which he did from his room on the morning of the 13th.

Boston Globe foreign editor James Smith told CPJ that Filipov was
notified of the decision to expel him that same afternoon, when he returned
to the Press Center. The correspondent, whose satellite phone was confiscated
by Iraqi authorities, arrived in Amman, Jordan, the next day.

MARCH 22, 2003

Fred Nerac, ITV
Hussein Othman, ITVMISSING

ITV cameraman Nerac and translator Othman were reported missing after
coming under fire while driving to the southern city of Basra, according
to the press office of ITN, which produces ITV News. The journalists were
not embedded with military forces. Terry Lloyd, the team's correspondent,
was killed in the incident.

The crew, along with cameraman Daniel Demoustier, were driving in two
marked press vehicles in the city of Iman Anas when they came under fire,
according to ITN.

Demoustier, who was injured during the incident but managed to escape,
was driving one of the vehicles. He said he did not see what happened
to Lloyd, who was seated next to him, or to the other members of the crew.

"Heavy gunfire started toward my car from the right-hand side, and I had
to duck down straight away," said Demoustier in an interview with ITV
News. "A split second, and I looked to the right and the right door where
my correspondent [Lloyd] was, and it was open and he was not there anymore."

Demoustier fled the area after joining other journalists who happened
to be driving by.

Eric Campbell, Australian Broadcasting CorporationATTACKED

Campbell, a correspondent for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
(ABC), was injured when a suicide bomber detonated a car at a checkpoint
in northeastern Iraq. Paul Moran, a freelance cameraman on assignment
for ABC, was killed in the incident.

Michael Ware, Time magazine's northern Iraq correspondent and a
witness to the incident, told his editor, Howard Chua-Eoan, that several
foreign journalists were standing outside a checkpoint on the edge of
Gerdigo, a town in northern Iraq near Halabja, interviewing people who
were leaving the town in the wake of a U.S. cruise missile bombardment
that began on March 21 and continued until the next day.

U.S. missiles were targeting strongholds of Ansar al-Islam, a militant
group that the United States designates as a terrorist organization. The
area where the journalists were conducting interviews was reportedly under
the control of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), a rival of Ansar
al-Islam that had just taken over the area.

At around 3 p.m., a taxi drove to the checkpoint near PUK soldiers and
Moran, and the driver then detonated his vehicle. Most of the other journalists
had just left the scene. Moran, who was filming at the time, was standing
only a few feet from the checkpoint and was killed immediately. Campbell
was injured by shrapnel.

Chua-Eoan said it appeared that the bomber was targeting the PUK soldiers,
not the journalists. According to The Associated Press, at least four
other people were killed in the bombing. Militants from Ansar al-Islam
are believed to be responsible for the attack.

Chua-Eoan told CPJ that foreign journalists in northern Iraq had recently
received warnings from U.S. State Department and Kurdish intelligence
officials that Ansar al-Islam might target members of the media, as well
as the hotel where most journalists were staying, the Sulaymaniyeh Palace.

Paul Moran, freelanceKILLEDCONFIRMED

Moran, a freelance cameraman on assignment for the Australian Broadcasting
Corporation (ABC), was killed when a suicide bomber detonated a car at
a checkpoint in northeastern Iraq. Another Australian journalist, ABC
correspondent Eric Campbell, was injured in the incident.

Michael Ware, Time magazine's northern Iraq correspondent and a
witness to the incident, told his editor, Howard Chua-Eoan, that several
foreign journalists were standing outside a checkpoint on the edge of
Gerdigo, a town in northern Iraq near Halabja, interviewing people who
were leaving the town in the wake of a U.S. cruise missile bombardment
that began on March 21 and continued until the next day.

U.S. missiles were targeting strongholds of Ansar al-Islam, a militant
group that the United States designates as a terrorist organization. The
area where the journalists were conducting interviews was reportedly under
the control of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), a rival of Ansar
al-Islam that had just taken over the area.

At around 3 p.m., a taxi drove to the checkpoint near PUK soldiers and
Moran, and the driver then detonated his vehicle. Most of the other journalists
had just left the scene. Moran, who was filming at the time, was standing
only a few feet from the checkpoint and was killed immediately. Campbell
was injured by shrapnel.

Chua-Eoan said it appeared that the bomber was targeting the PUK soldiers,
not the journalists. According to The Associated Press, at least four
other people were killed in the bombing. Militants from Ansar al-Islam
are believed to be responsible for the attack.

Chua-Eoan told CPJ that foreign journalists in northern Iraq had recently
received warnings from U.S. State Department and Kurdish intelligence
officials that Ansar al-Islam might target members of the media, as well
as the hotel where most journalists were staying, the Sulaymaniyeh Palace.

MARCH 23, 2003

Robert Valdec, freelanceEXPELLED

Valdec, a Croatian freelance journalist, was expelled from the capital,
Baghdad, after he conducted a live interview with CNN, which had been
expelled from Iraq a week earlier. Valdec, who had been in Baghdad for
three weeks reporting for the Croatian Commercial Network, the Serbian
Independent Network, the Bosnian Independent Network, and a variety of
other Balkan news outlets, was reprimanded and told to leave the city
after speaking on air with CNN from his hotel room on March 22.

According to Valdec, who spoke to CPJ from his hotel room in Amman, Jordan,
armed Iraqi officials arrived at his Baghdad hotel room within 20 minutes
of the CNN interview. Valdec said he was not in the room at the time but
could see the armed guards at his door from an adjacent room.

The general manager of the Information Ministry later asked Valdec to
leave Baghdad immediately. Valdec said he persuaded the manager to allow
him to leave the next morning, after the U.S. and coalition bombing campaign
had ceased. Iraqi officials escorted Valdec to the Jordanian border.

Terry Lloyd, ITVKILLEDCONFIRMED

Lloyd, a veteran correspondent with ITV News, was confirmed dead on March
23 by the British TV network ITN, which produces ITV News. The previous
day, he had disappeared after coming under fire while driving to the southern
city of Basra.

The three men, along with cameraman Daniel Demoustier, were traveling
in two marked press vehicles in the town of Iman Anas, near Al-Zubayr,
when they came under fire, ITN reported. According to Demoustier, the
car he and Lloyd had been driving had been pursued by Iraqi troops who
may have been attempting to surrender to the journalists. Demoustier reported
that the incoming fire to their vehicles likely came from U.S. or British
forces in the area.

Demoustier, who was injured when the car he was driving crashed into a
ditch and caught fire, managed to escape. He said he did not see what
happened to Lloyd, who was seated next to him, or to the other crew members.
Lloyd's body was recovered in a hospital in Basra days later.

An investigative article published in the Wall Street Journal in
May indicated that Lloyd's SUV and another vehicle belonging to his colleagues
came under fire from U.S. Marines. The article cited accounts from U.S.
troops who recalled opening fire on cars marked "TV." Soldiers also said
they believed that Iraqi suicide bombers were using the cars to attack
U.S. troops.

The Journal article cited a report from a British security firm
commissioned by ITN to investigate the incident saying that Lloyd's car
was hit by both coalition and Iraqi fire; the latter most likely came
from behind the car, possibly after the vehicle had crashed.

The report concluded that "[t]he Iraqis no doubt mounted an attack using
the ITN crew as cover, or perhaps stumbled into the U.S. forces whilst
attempting to detain the ITN crew." The report also speculated that the
missing journalistsNerac and Othman, who were last seen by Demoustier
in another car being stopped by Iraqi forcesmight have been pulled
out of their car before it came under fire from coalition forces, and
then Iraqi forces used the SUV to attack the coalition forces.

In April, Nerac's wife approached U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell
at a NATO press conference, and he promised to do everything in his power
to find out what had happened to the missing men. In late May, U.S. Central
Command (Centcom) said it was investigating the incident, while the British
Ministry of Defense promised to open an inquiry. Neither had made public
any results as of October.

In September, London's The Daily Mirror newspaper reported the
testimony of an Iraqi man named Hamid Aglan, who had allegedly tried to
rescue the wounded Lloyd in a civilian minibus. Aglan told the newspaper
that he had picked up a lightly wounded Lloyd, who had suffered only a
shoulder injury, and attempted to take him to a hospital in Basra when
the minibus came under fire from a U.S. helicopter, killing Lloyd. The
paper reported that the bus was also carrying wounded Iraqi soldiers.

An ITN spokesperson told CPJ that a number of elements of Aglan's story
are not consistent with ITN's own investigation. She said an autopsy revealed
that Lloyd had suffered two serious wounds that likely resulted from Iraqi
and U.S. fire. She said that after he was wounded, an Iraqi civilian in
a minibus had picked up Lloyd and tried to take him to a hospital in Basra.
The minibus later came under U.S. attack. "It was a gunshot to the bus
and [Terry] was probably in the bus," she said. ITN investigators believe
that either wound that Lloyd sustained would have been fatal.

APRIL 2, 2003

Steve Hughes, BBCATTACKED

Hughes, a producer for the BBC, was injured when Iranian freelance cameraman
Kaveh Golestan stepped on a land mine in northern Iraq, the BBC confirmed.
Golestan died from his injuries

Golestan, who was on assignment for the BBC, accidentally detonated the
mine when he exited his car near the town of Kifri, John Morrissey of
the BBC's foreign desk told CPJ. The cameraman was traveling as part of
a four-person BBC crew, along with Tehran, Iran, bureau chief Jim Muir,
producer Hughes, and translator Rabeen Azad. Hughes' foot was injured
and later treated by U.S. military medics. Muir and the translator suffered
light cuts, Morrissey said.

Golestan, who was also a well-known still photographer, had worked frequently
with the BBC from its Tehran bureau.

Kaveh Golestan, freelanceKILLEDCONFIRMED

Golestan, an Iranian freelance cameraman on assignment for the BBC, was
killed in northern Iraq after stepping on a land mine, the BBC confirmed.

Golestan accidentally detonated the mine when he exited his car near the
town of Kifri, John Morrissey of the BBC's foreign desk told CPJ. The
cameraman was traveling as part of a four-person BBC crew, along with
Tehran, Iran, bureau chief Jim Muir, producer Steve Hughes, and translator
Rabeen Azad. Hughes' foot was injured and later treated by U.S. military
medics. Muir and the translator suffered light cuts, Morrissey said.

Golestan, who was also a well-known still photographer, had worked frequently
with the BBC from its Tehran bureau.

APRIL 3, 2003

Michael Kelly, Atlantic Monthly, Washington PostKILLEDCONFIRMED

Kelly, editor-at-large of the Atlantic Monthly and a columnist
with the Washington Post, was killed while traveling with the U.S.
Army's 3rd Infantry Division just south of the Baghdad airport, according
to a statement from the Washington Post.

According to press reports, when the humvee in which Kelly was riding
came under Iraqi fire, the soldier driving the vehicle tried to evade
the attack, and the jeep ran off the road and rolled into a canal. Both
Kelly and the driver drowned.

Kelly, who had previously served as the editor of the New Republic
and the National Journal, was the first U.S. journalist killed
while covering the war.

APRIL 7, 2003

Christian Liebig, FocusKILLEDCONFIRMED

Liebig, a reporter for the German weekly magazine Focus, died in
an Iraqi missile attack while accompanying the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry
Division south of the capital, Baghdad. Both Liebig and Julio Anguita
Parrado, a Spanish journalist also killed in the incident, were embedded
with the division, according to Agence France-Presse.

According to Focus Editor-in-Chief Helmut Markwort, the two men
had decided not to travel with the unit to Baghdad, believing they would
be safer at the base. Two U.S. soldiers were also killed during the attack,
and 15 were injured.

Liebig, 35, had worked for Focus since 1999.

Julio Anguita Parrado, El MundoKILLEDCONFIRMED

Parrado, a correspondent for the Spanish daily El Mundo, died in
an Iraqi missile attack while accompanying the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry
Division south of the capital, Baghdad. Both Parrado and Christian Liebig,
a German journalist for Focus magazine who was also killed in the
incident, were embedded with the division, according to Agence France-Presse.

According to Focus Editor-in-Chief Helmut Markwort, the two men
had decided not to travel with the unit to Baghdad, believing they would
be safer at the base. Two U.S. soldiers were also killed during the attack,
and 15 were injured. Parrado was the second El Mundo correspondent
to have been killed in conflict in almost two years: Correspondent Julio
Fuentes died after gunmen ambushed his convoy in Afghanistan in 2001.

Parrado was the son of the former leader of Spain's communist-led United
Left coalition.

APRIL 8, 2003

Tareq Ayyoub, Al-JazeeraKILLEDCONFIRMED

Ayyoub, a Jordanian national working with the Qatar-based satellite channel
Al-Jazeera, was killed when a U.S. missile struck the station's Baghdad
bureau, which was located in a two-story villa in a residential area near
the Iraqi Information Ministry and the former presidential palace compound
of Saddam Hussein. Al-Jazeera cameraman Zouhair Nadhim, who was outside
on the building's roof with Ayyoub, was injured in the blast, which targeted
a small electric generator outside the building.

U.S. Central Command (Centcom) maintains that U.S. forces were responding
to enemy fire in the area and that the Al-Jazeera journalists were caught
in the crossfire. Al-Jazeera correspondents deny that any fire came from
their building.

The attack occurred during heavy fighting around the bureau, in an area
that housed government buildings targeted by U.S. and coalition forces.
Al-Jazeera officials pointed out that the U.S. military had been given
the bureau's exact coordinates weeks before the war began.

In an April 8 letter to U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, CPJ protested
the bombing and called for an immediate investigation. In October, a Centcom
spokesman confirmed to CPJ that no investigation into the incident has
been conducted.

The incident occurred around dawn, after intense antiaircraft fire began
in the area. Talk show host and producer Maher Abdullah, a five-year Al-Jazeera
veteran who had been in Baghdad for two weeks at the time, told CPJ that
planes began flying low in the area at around 6 a.m.

The crew went up to the roof of the building to report but retreated because
they deemed it unsafe. According to Abdullah, the crew realized moments
later that their still camera had been knocked out of position and now
faced the Ministry of Information building, which Iraqi authorities had
explicitly warned the crew not to film. Assistant cameraman Nadhim returned
to the roof with Ayyoub to adjust the camera.

When Ayyoub and Nadhim went upstairs, Abdullah heard a plane fly so low
that it sounded like it was going to crash into the building. At that
point, a missile struck Al-Jazeera's small generator, which was located
outside the building at ground level just below where Ayyoub was believed
to have been at the time. Two Al-Jazeera correspondents said that while
they suspect that the strike caused his death, he could have been killed
by other ordnance.

Another plane passed low about 15 minutes later and fired another missile,
which struck across the road about 50 feet (15 meters) from the front
door, blowing it off the hinges, according to Abdullah.

Raed Khattar, a cameraman for Abu Dhabi TV who, at the time, was outside
on the nearby roof of Abu Dhabi TV's office, saw what was likely the first
missile because his office was between the plane and Al-Jazeera's office,
he told CPJ.

Moments later, Abu Dhabi TV staff on the roof came under machine gun fire
from a U.S. tank on the nearby Jumhuriyya Bridge, and one of their three
unmanned cameras was struck by a shell, staff told CPJ. The three-story
building was marked with a large banner labeled "Abu Dhabi TV."

In a statement issued hours after the incident, Centcom in Doha, Qatar,
said that, "According to commanders on the ground, Coalition forces came
under significant enemy fire from the building where the Al-Jazeera journalists
were working, and consistent with the right of self-defense, Coalition
forces returned fire. Sadly, an Al-Jazeera correspondent was killed in
this exchange."

Abdullah noted that until that morning antiaircraft fire in the area had
been sporadic. Days before April 8, Abdullah saw manned Iraqi antiaircraft
positions in the general vicinitysome 220 yards (200 meters) away
on the opposite side of the generator but not immediately near the office.
However, three days later, he discovered one antiaircraft gun about 44
yards (40 meters) from the bureau.

Just before the war, CPJ obtained a copy of the February 24 letter that
then Al-Jazeera Managing Director Mohammed Jasem al-Ali had sent to then
Pentagon spokeswoman, Victoria Clarke, specifying the coordinates of the
bureau.

Al-Jazeera also maintains that the night before the strike, al-Ali had
received explicit assurances from U.S. State Department official Nabeel
Khoury, in Doha, Qatar, that the bureau was safe and would not be targeted.
Abdullah told CPJ, "The coordinates were actually given four months in
advance to the Pentagon, and we were assured that we would not be hit
under any circumstances. ... We would never be targeted, that was the
assurance."

In an e-mail reply to CPJ, Khoury, who said he did not recall the exact
date of his meeting with Al-Jazeera, said, "I doubt very much that I assured
anybody's safety in a war zone." He added that he did tell the station
"what we had been telling all diplomats and civilians, that whereas our
troops would do their utmost not to hurt civilians, there was no way to
guarantee anyone's safety in a war zone."

In its April 8 letter to U.S. Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, CPJ also
noted that, "The attack against Al-Jazeera is of particular concern since
the station's offices were also hit in Kabul, Afghanistan, in November
2001. The Pentagon asserted, without providing additional detail, that
the office was a ‘known Al-Qaeda facility,' and that the U.S. military
did not know the space was being used by Al-Jazeera."

CPJ is still waiting for the Defense Department to fulfill a Freedom of
Information Act request related to the incident that CPJ filed in May.

José Couso, TelecincoKILLEDCONFIRMED

Couso, a cameraman for the Spanish television station Telecinco, died
after a U.S. tank fired a shell at Baghdad's Palestine Hotel, , where
most journalists in the city were based during the war. At around 12 p.m.,
a shell hit two hotel balconies where several journalists were monitoring
a battle in the vicinity. Taras Protsyuk, a Ukranian cameraman for Reuters,
was also killed in the attack

Agence France-Presse reported that Couso was hit in his jaw and right
leg. He was taken to Saint Raphael Hospital, where he died during surgery.
Couso was married with two children.

Directly after the attack, Maj. Gen. Buford Blount, commander of the U.S.
Army's 3rd Infantry Division, confirmed that a single shell had been fired
at the hotel from a tank in response to what he said was rocket and small-arms
fire from the building. Journalists at the hotel deny that any gunfire
had emanated from the building.

A CPJ report concluded that the shelling of the hotel, while not deliberate,
was avoidable since U.S. commanders knew that journalists were present
in the hotel and were intent on not hitting it. The report called on the
Pentagon to conduct a thorough and public investigation into the incident.

On August 12, U.S. Central Command (Centcom) issued a news release summarizing
the results of its investigation into the incident. The report concluded
that the tank unit that opened fire on the hotel did so "in a proportionate
and justifiably measured response." It called the shelling "fully in accordance
with the Rules of Engagement."

Centcom offered some detailconsistent with CPJ's investigationthat
the tank opened fire at what it believed was an Iraqi "spotter" directing
enemy fire at U.S. troops. The release also explained that "one 120mm
tank round was fired at the suspected enemy observer position. ... It
was only some time after the incident that A Company became aware of the
fact that the building they fired on was the Palestine Hotel and that
journalists at the hotel had been killed or injured as a result."

However, the news release failed to address one of the conclusions in
CPJ's report: That U.S. commanders knew that journalists were in the Palestine
Hotel but failed to convey this knowledge to forces on the ground.

Centcom's results, which were summarized in the release, appeared to back
away from earlier charges by U.S. military officials that the tank unit
was responding to hostile fire emanating from the hotel. Yet, despite
considerable testimony to the contrary from several journalists in the
hotel, Centcom maintains "that the enemy used portions of the hotel as
a base of operations and that heavy enemy activity was occurring in those
areas in and immediately around the hotel."

In addition, the news release failed to provide other specific information,
such as how the decision to target the hotel was made.

CPJ has urged Centcom to make the full report available, but a Centcom
spokesperson told CPJ the report is classified. CPJ is still waiting for
the Defense Department to fulfill a Freedom of Information Act request
related to the incident that CPJ filed in May.

Taras Protsyuk, Reuters
KILLEDCONFIRMED

Protsyuk, a cameraman for Reuters, died after a U.S. tank fired a shell
at Baghdad's Palestine Hotel, where most journalists in the city were
based during the war. At around 12 p.m., a shell hit two hotel balconies
where several journalists were monitoring a battle in the vicinity. José
Couso, a cameraman for the Spanish television station Telecinco, also
died in the attack.

Agence France-Presse reported that Protsyuk died of wounds to his head
and stomach. He had worked for Reuters since 1993, covering conflicts
in Bosnia, Kosovo, Chechnya, and Afghanistan. He was married with an 8-year-old
son.

Directly after the attack, Maj. Gen. Buford Blount, commander of the U.S.
Army's 3rd Infantry Division, confirmed that a single shell had been fired
at the hotel from a tank in response to what he said was rocket and small-arms
fire from the building. Journalists at the hotel denied that any gunfire
had emanated from the building.

A CPJ report concluded that the shelling of the hotel, while not deliberate,
was avoidable since U.S. commanders knew that journalists were present
in the hotel and were intent on not hitting it. The report called on the
Pentagon to conduct a thorough and public investigation into the incident.

On August 12, U.S. Central Command (Centcom) issued a news release summarizing
the results of its investigation into the incident. The report concluded
that the tank unit that opened fire on the hotel did so "in a proportionate
and justifiably measured response." It called the shelling "fully in accordance
with the Rules of Engagement."

Centcom offered some detailconsistent with CPJ's investigationthat
the tank opened fire at what it believed was an Iraqi "spotter" directing
enemy fire at U.S. troops. The release also explained that "one 120mm
tank round was fired at the suspected enemy observer position. ... It
was only some time after the incident that A Company became aware of the
fact that the building they fired on was the Palestine Hotel and that
journalists at the hotel had been killed or injured as a result."

However, the news release failed to address one of the conclusions in
CPJ's report: That U.S. commanders knew that journalists were in the Palestine
Hotel but failed to convey this knowledge to forces on the ground.

Centcom's results, which were summarized in the release, appeared to back
away from earlier charges by U.S. military officials that the tank unit
was responding to hostile fire emanating from the hotel. Yet, despite
considerable testimony to the contrary from several journalists in the
hotel, Centcom maintains "that the enemy used portions of the hotel as
a base of operations and that heavy enemy activity was occurring in those
areas in and immediately around the hotel."

In addition, the news release failed to provide other specific information,
such as how the decision to target the hotel was made.

CPJ has urged Centcom to make the full report available, but a Centcom
spokesperson told CPJ the report is classified. CPJ is still waiting for
the Defense Department to fulfill a Freedom of Information Act request
related to the incident that CPJ filed in May.

JUNE 24, 2003

Nic Robertson, CNN
Rym Brahimi, CNNEXPELLED

Iraqi officials expelled CNN correspondents Robertson and Brahimi, as
well as a producer and a cameraman. The team was ordered to leave the
country and departed to Amman, Jordan.

According to press reports, Iraqi officials considered the reporting of
the CNN crew biased. In 2002, Iraqi officials expelled CNN correspondent
Jane Arraf from the country.

JULY 5, 2003

Richard Wild, freelanceKILLEDCONFIRMED

Wild, a 24-year-old British freelance cameraman, died after being gunned
down in central Baghdad. An unidentified assailant approached him and
shot him in the head at close range on a street near Baghdad's Natural
History Museum, according to international press reports. Some of the
reports stated that Wild was not carrying a camera or wearing any clothing
that would have identified him as a journalist. CPJ is investigating the
incident.

JULY 6, 2003

Jeremy Little, freelanceKILLEDCONFIRMED

Little, a freelance soundman working for the U.S.-based television network
NBC, died of complications from injuries sustained during a grenade attack
in central Iraq the previous week.

Little was injured in a grenade attack in the Iraqi town of Fallujah on
June 29, while embedded with U.S. troops, and died of "post-operative
complications," according to a statement from NBC News. Little, a 27-year-old
Australian national who was embedded with the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry
Division for NBC News, had been receiving treatment at a military hospital
in Germany.

AUGUST 11, 2003

Hassan Fattah, Iraq TodayHARASSED

U.S. forces detained Fattah, editor of the English-language daily Iraq
Today, after preventing him from attending a press conference. In
an e-mail to CPJ, Fattah described the incident, which occurred at Baghdad's
conference center when he attempted to gain entry to cover the Iraqi Governing
Council's press conference that day. CPJ independently confirmed his account.

Fattah said that he came to the center five minutes after journalists
were supposed to arrive and was told by a U.S. Army major that he was
not allowed to enter. Fattah proceeded to the line in the center's hallway
anyway and said that several other journalists were lined up behind him.
When he arrived at the security check, the same major asked him to step
out of the line and told him again that he would not be granted entry
to the conference center. Fattah said that other journalists who were
behind him in the line were allowed to proceed without trouble.

Fattah said that after he and the major heatedly argued, several soldiers
wrestled him to the ground, handcuffed him, and took him away. His press
card was confiscated and he was told that he would not be able to return
to the center. His card was later returned. In an e-mail to Fattah, Coalition
Provisional Authority spokesman Charles Heatley did not comment on the
incident but said that Fattah would be allowed to enter the conference
center and cover events.

AUGUST 17, 2003

Mazen Dana, ReutersKILLEDCONFIRMED

Dana, a veteran conflict cameraman for Reuters news agency, was killed
by machine gun fire from a U.S. tank near the capital, Baghdad. Dana was
struck in the torso while filming near Abu Ghraib Prison, outside Baghdad,
in the afternoon. He had been reporting with a colleague near the prison
after a mortar attack had killed six Iraqis there the previous night.
The soldier in the tank who fired on Dana did so without warning, while
the journalist filmed the vehicle approaching him from about 55 yards
(50 meters).

U.S. military officials said the soldier who opened fire mistook Dana's
camera for a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) launcher. There was no fighting
taking place in the area, and the journalists had been operating in the
vicinity of the prison with the knowledge of U.S. troops near the prison
gates.

In an August 18 letter to U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, CPJ
protested the shooting, stating that it raised "serious questions about
the conduct of U.S. troops and their rules of engagement."

On September 22, the U.S. military announced that it had concluded its
investigation into the incident. A spokesman for the U.S. Central Command
(Centcom) in Iraq told CPJ that while Dana's killing was "regrettable,"
the soldiers "acted within the rules of engagement." No further details
were provided. The results of the investigation have not been made public.
A Centcom spokesman said other details of the report are classified.

Dana's soundman, Nael Shyioukhi, who witnessed the incident, told CPJ
that he and Dana arrived at the prison with their driver, Munzer Abbas,
in the late afternoon. According to Shyioukhi, several journalists were
also in the area. Shyioukhi said that after a short while Dana suggested
that they approach the prison gates to begin filming. At one point, Dana
identified himself to a U.S. soldier as a journalist from Reuters and
asked if a spokesman was available to comment on camera about the attack
the previous night. The soldier replied that he could not comment, and
no spokesmen were available. Dana then asked the soldier if he and Shyioukhi
could film the prison from a nearby bridge. According to Shyioukhi, the
soldier politely told them they were welcome to do so.

After filming from the bridge, located between 330 and 660 yards (300
and 600 meters) from the prison, Dana and Shyioukhi, who were wearing
jeans and T-shirts, packed their equipment in their car and began to head
off for the Reuters office. As they approached the main road to the prison,
Dana noticed a convoy of tanks approaching and told Abbas to stop so he
could film it. According to Shyioukhi, he and Dana were not apprehensive
because the area was calm, and it was apparent that U.S. troops were in
complete control. Neither Dana nor Shyioukhi was wearing a flak jacket,
and their car was not marked press.

Dana exited the car and set up his blue, canvas-encased camera with a
white microphone facing the tanks while Shyioukhi lit a cigarette. Shyioukhi
said Dana had been filming for about 10 seconds when suddenly, without
warning, several shots rang out from the lead tank, which was approximately
55 yards (50 meters) away.

Shyioukhi ducked for cover, then heard Dana scream and saw him place his
hand on his stomach, which was bleeding profusely. He said that within
moments of the shooting, approximately six U.S. soldiers, including the
one who shot Dana, surrounded them. Shyioukhi recounted that the soldier
who shot Dana screamed at Shyioukhi to "stand back."

A doctor arrived on an armored personnel carrier (APC) within moments
and tried to stop the bleeding. The APC took Dana back to the prison complex
for treatment and to get him evacuated to a hospital.

U.S. military spokesman Col. Guy Shields called Dana's death a "tragic
incident" and promised to do everything to avoid a similar incident in
the future. When questioned by London's Independent about the rules
of engagement for U.S. troops, Shields said, "I can't give you details
on the rules of engagement, but the enemy is not in formations, they are
not wearing uniforms. During wartime, firing a warning shot is not a necessity.
There is no time for a warning shot if there is potential for an ambush."

Some journalists at the scene questioned how troops could mistake the
camera for a weapon. And according to experts who train war correspondents,
although one might easily mistake a camera for an RPG launcher at a distance,
a camera would be clearly visible from 55 to 110 yards (50 to 100 meters)the
distance from which Dana was hit.
AUGUST 25, 2003Posted: July 26, 2005
Ahmad Kareem, Kurdistan TVKILLEDCONFIRMED

Kareem, director of Kurdistan TV's Mosul bureau, was shot and killed by U.S. forces outside the bureau's office along the Tigris River. Kurdistan TV staff and an official from the Kurdistan Democratic Party, which runs Kurdistan TV, told CPJ that Kareem was sitting outside with a colleague writing a news report when a U.S. river patrol exchanged fire with an armed group situated on the same river bank as Kurdistan TV. Kareem and his colleague were shot as they sought refuge in the bureau. The colleague, a cameraman, survived.

Kareem and his colleague had decided to work outside because there was no electricity in the building and the office was excessively hot.

Bakhtiar Talabani, media director in Kirkuk for the Kurdistan Democratic Party, said U.S. military officials visited the family's home days later to express their condolences and provide his children with a sum of money. The U.S. military has not investigated the incident nor has it issued an official apology.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2003

Atwar Bahgat, Al-Jazeera
Yasser Bahgat, Al-JazeeraHARASSED

U.S. troops detained Al-Jazeera correspondent Atwar Bahgat and her cameraman,
Yasser Bahgat (no relation), in the Ghazaliya section of the capital,
Baghdad. Atwar Bahgat told CPJ that she and her cameraman were filming
near the Ghazaliya Bridge, which U.S. troops had sealed after an explosion
allegedly occurred earlier that day. When a U.S. soldier approached them
and ordered them to back away from the bridge, the journalists complied,
but when they continued filming, soldiers grabbed Yasser Bahgat.

According to Atwar Bahgat, the soldiers put both journalists into a humvee
and took them to a detention center at Baghdad Airport, where U.S. forces
asked them how they had learned about the explosion. One interrogator
accused the journalists of knowing about the bombing before it happened.
They were released the next day after spending the night in detention.

U.S. Central Command spokesmen, as well as spokesmen for Coalition Forces
in Iraq, had no details about the incident. However, The Associated Press
quoted an unnamed military spokesman as saying that the journalists had
violated unspecified "ground rules."

SEPTEMBER 23, 2003Posted: September 23, 2003

Al-Jazeera
Al-ArabiyyaHARASSED

Iraq's U.S.-appointed Governing Council announced that it will bar reporters
with the Arabic satellite channels Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiyya from covering
official press conferences and from entering official buildings for two
weeks, according to press reports and a Governing Council source.

Reuters quoted Entifadh Qanbar, spokesman for council chairman Ahmed Chalabi,
as saying that the decision came because the stations incite "sectarian
differences in Iraq," "political violence," and the murders of Governing
Council and U.S. Coalition members.

The Associated Press (AP) quoted council officials as saying that the
stations also failed to disclose information about pending attacks on
U.S. troops.

It is not clear what specific broadcasts prompted the sanctions.

Karim Kadim, The Associated Press HARASSED

U.S. soldiers detained photographer Kadim and his driver Mohammed Abbas
near Abu Ghraib, just outside Baghdad. According to the associated Press
(AP), both men were handcuffed and forced to stand in the sun for three
hours while being denied water and the use of a telephone. "Soldiers from
the 2nd Battalion, 70th Armored Regiment, 1st Armored Division kept their
guns trained on them, despite repeated attempts to explain they were journalists,"
the AP said.

"We identified ourselves from the very beginning as press, even before
we approached the troops. I was asked not to take any pictures and I didn't.
We were told to leave and we walked away, and then one of them shouted
at us to come back," Kadim was quoted as saying. A U.S. military official
later apologized for the incident, calling it a "misunderstanding."

SEPTEMBER 25, 2003Posted: September 25, 2003

NBCATTACKED

A bomb exploded at the Baghdad hotel that housed the NBC crew, killing
a hotel security guard and causing light injuries to NBC News soundman
David Moodie.

NBC News reported that a small explosive device detonated at around 7
a.m. outside of the Al-Aike Hotel in central Baghdad where NBC News has
based its Iraq operations during the last two months. Citing Iraqi police,
NBC said that the bomb had been placed just outside the hotel, in a hut
that housed a hotel generator.

NBC reporter Jim Avila said that NBC News was the only occupant of the
hotel, and that the building had no identifiable markings indicating NBC's
presence.
OCTOBER 19, 2003Posted: October 31, 2003

Patrick Baz, Agence France-Presse
Hamza al-Badri, ReutersHARASSED

Photographer Baz and cameraman al-Badri were briefly detained by Iraqi
police in the city of Fallujah, 25 miles west of Baghdad. The two had
arrived in Fallujah in the early afternoon to report on a morning attack
on a U.S. convoy.

Baz told CPJ that the two were invited by Iraqi police to attend a press
conference at the Fallujah police station. Baz said that only after arriving
at the station were the journalists told that they were being detained.
He said the Iraqi officers, who did not put them behind bars, treated
them well and told the journalists that they had detained them on U.S.
Army orders. The Iraqi officers apologized for not knowing the reason
for their detention.

Baz said that after several hours, the two were transferred form the police
station to the nearby U.S. 82nd Airborne Division base. While there, Baz
said that he asked a U.S. officer why they were being held. The officer
said that there were reports that Iraqi resistance fighters had filmed
the attack on the U.S. convoy, and that they were looking for the person
who filmed the attack because that person would have had advance knowledge
of the attack.

Baz and al-Badri were released that evening.
OCTOBER 28, 2003Posted: October 28, 2003

Ahmed Shawkat, Bilah IttijahKILLED

According to The Associated Press (AP) and an Agence France-Presse
correspondent in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, Shawkat, editor of
the Iraqi weekly Bilah Ittijah (Without Direction), was shot and
killed by a gunman. The gunman and an accomplice had followed the journalist
to his office roof this afternoon.

Shawkat's daughter, Roaa, told AP that her father had received threatening
letters several weeks earlier warning him to close his newspaper. Local
police are investigating the murder.

No further details are available at this time. CPJ continues to monitor
the case.

According to news reports and Portuguese editors who spoke with CPJ, the
gunmenwho were armed with Kalashnikov rifles and other small armsattempted
to intercept a three-jeep convoy carrying between six and nine Portuguese
journalists. The journalists had been heading north from the Kuwaiti border
to the southern Iraqi city of Basra when the attack occurred early this
morning.

When one of the jeeps refused to stop, the assailants opened fire, wounding
Ruela, a reporter with the television channel Sociedade Independente de
Comunicação (SIC). She was shot in the buttocks, according to SIC foreign
editor Martim Cabral, who spoke with the journalist after the incident.
Cabral said that the attackers forced Ruela, her cameraman, do O, and
Raleiras, a reporter for the Portuguese radio station TSF, out of their
jeep. The assailants then pushed Raleiras back into the jeep and sped
away, he said.

Cabral said that Iraqi civilians later picked up the two journalists and
took them to Basra, where British medics treated Ruela for her injuries.
He said Ruela is in good condition.

The two other jeeps in the convoy eluded the attackers and fled to Basra
unharmed.

TSF's Web site reported that its editors managed to contact the journalist
on his cell phone, and that he told them he had been kidnapped but was
in good health.

TSF editor Nuno Saraiva told CPJ that station officials have been unable
to contact the journalist for several hours and fear that Raleiras' phone
battery has gone dead. Saraiva said that British forces are in contact
with the kidnappers, who have demanded a ransom, which some television
reports put at US$50,000.

TSF reported that British troops were deployed in the area in an attempt
to locate the missing journalist.

NOVEMBER 24, 2003Posted November 24, 2003

Al-Arabiyya
CENSORED

The U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council closed the Baghdad offices
of the Dubai-based satellite news channel Al-Arabiyya for an indefinite
period, according to press reports.

The move came after the station aired an audiotape on November 16 purportedly
of Saddam Hussein urging Iraqis to resist the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq.

"We have decided to ban Al-Arabiyya for a certain time because it broadcast
an invitation to murder, an incitement to murder by the voice of Saddam
Hussein," said council President Jalal Talabani, according to Agence France-Presse.

Al-Arabiyya News Director Saleh Negm told CPJ he received a written statement
from the council stating that Al-Arabiyya's equipment had been confiscated,
and that its staff was barred from working in Iraq under penalty of fines
and up to one year in prison. Negm said the statement added that the ban
would remain in effect until Al-Arabiyya could guarantee that it would
abide by unspecified "rules."

Mowaffak al-Rubaie, a member of the council who heads its Media Committee,
accused Al-Arabiyya of "inciting violence, encouraging sectarian rifts,
and encouraging terrorism." He said the broadcast of the recent Saddam
Hussein tape was not the only reason for the closure. Without providing
details, Al-Rubaie alleged that on two previous occasions, the station
had reported acts of violence before they occurred. He also accused Al-Arabiyya
correspondents of encouraging masked militants to make inciting statements
on air. Negm told CPJ he adamantly denies both charges and alleges that
U.S. and Iraqi officials are waging a smear campaign against the station
because they think its coverage is too negative.

DECEMBER 11, 2003Posted: December 11, 2003

Michael Weisskopf, Time
James Nachtwey, Time
ATTACKED

Weisskopf, a correspondent with the U.S. newsmagazine Time,
and Nachtwey, a photographer with the publication, were wounded in a grenade
attack in Baghdad while accompanying U.S. troops.

The journalists suffered undisclosed injuries when unidentified assailants
threw a grenade into a Humvee the men were traveling in, Time managing
editor Jim Kelly said in a written statement. Two soldiers in the Humvee
were also injured in the attack, which occurred at about 9:30 p.m.

The statement described both journalists as being in "stable condition"
and said they were awaiting transfer to a U.S. military hospital in Landstuhl,
Germany.